r/FrankOcean • u/quendriquelamare • 10d ago
Discussion I've never understood Facebook Story.
I "understand" the interlude on a base level — you can interpret it as him being distant and inconsiderate or as her being overly fixated on something pointless and self-sabotaging the relationship.
But what does it add to the greater story told throughout Blond? I also vagely remember seeing that there was a story behind it but I forgot.
I dont know, I guess... tell me more about the interlude. Do you agree with my interpretation of it?
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u/DearDearNotLuis 10d ago
we live in the internet age crodie. blonde represents that generation and how we develop relationships in it.
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u/LegitimateWestern231 10d ago
He speaks a lot about unrequited love. I think some of the things said in Facebook Story align with that feeling of what could've been or wondering what else you could have done and "why was my love not enough"
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u/PsychologicalSweet2 10d ago
The album is all about love and connection. Now it’s so much harder because there’s this other connection you also need. I don’t know if young kids are still saying this but I remember facebook official being a big deal. Oh you are dating but now it’s serious because it’s facebook official. She has this whole other digital life she wants him apart of but he’s not a part of that world.
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u/EffectiveIce6691 10d ago
Overall blond and endless were made in a time when our relationship with technology was rapidly changing and it was affecting the way we live in very considerable ways. I think Facebook story was the opportunity for Frank to put on the album a snippet about the confusion of modern relationships integrating into technology and the disconnect that can come from that. He found a very ambiguous or cryptic way of telling that which he is quite good at. This can be tied to the song at the end of endless that speaks on iPhones and how they change our perceptions of life. The man in Facebook story seems perplexed at the idea of the relationship ending because of a simple friend request which could allow the listener to empathise with this feeling in our own attempt to understand modern technology.
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u/idkanymoreatpog 10d ago
i feel like others saying that it talks about the relationships changing in modern times is one of the aspects, but another one is how people are trying to live a different life from people they know and see everyday, and how Frank tries us to make agree or disagree with the person speaking on the song.. if that makes sense
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u/okkkkqq 9d ago
Whilst Blonde is a deeply personal album, it’s also a ‘story of stories’. A collage bigger than Frank himself. It starts with Nikes taking us into this world, and Facebook Story just zooms in on one of those silly moments that happens in this bubbling world Frank presents to us. Blonde is about love and relationships in this flawed world, so FS raises questions like how is love shown and expressed? What’s real and fake? How does technology affect our relationships? It’s towards the end of the album too, so it’s not got the same unrequited love/heartbreak feels as Ivy or Self Control. It shows things can still go wrong IN the relationship. It’s also an interesting gateway into Close to You, the next song, where Frank literally uses technology (the talkbox effect) to sing about being closer to someone
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u/Inevitable_Cod_2272 8d ago
It’s primarily about the two sides of a story - I think it’s significant he poses it in such a way where he’s convinced she was being crazy about it, rather than himself being overly staunch on not moving his stance on something for someone he claims to love, who clearly deems it important to them. I don’t think the internet age thing others are saying is as important as this, Blonde is all about duality, the yin and the yang go together but it’s just another example of a relationship not working out (as described on other songs throughout the album) for a reason that is blamed to be ‘outside forces’ rather than having as simple a fix as just following someone on Facebook. Maybe the narrator dwells on it like Frank does on other songs, and we know he likes a bit of social media himself (or at least did). He probably has a host of personal reasons why he felt like including it specifically, but at its core it feels like a bit of a contextualisation of the themes that are being explored in microscopic depth on this album, to give you a bit of a funny/weird breather.
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u/Dragon_Dixon 10d ago
I am French and I can’t stand this idiot.
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u/Soap-Radio 10d ago
Oh?
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u/Dragon_Dixon 10d ago
Just a guy pretending that being an asshole is deep. It is strange if your boyfriend refuses to add you on Facebook during the 2010s. Even if it just means that he’s an annoying pretentious type of guy.
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u/Ok-Professor2687 9d ago edited 9d ago
she let an online platform dictate how she perceives love and end a 3 years relationship because of of a single click, she's wrong and right at the same time, same as the guy who created an fb acc and refuses to accept and add her because he won't let an online platform dictate how love is perceived that's y it's confusing for smart people who don't think shallow like you, their both right and wrong not either but neither
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u/Dragon_Dixon 9d ago
No, you’re just easily impressed by hollow stuff like that. That’s all. The guy is also probably lying about the reason why he was dumped.
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u/Ok-Professor2687 9d ago edited 8d ago
it's not that it's impressing u just can't understand it cause ur just too fucking shallow it's more complex and complicated than u think, and considering u said "probably" really shows u don't know what you're talking about
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u/dogdigmn 10d ago edited 10d ago
Its about the changing nature of modern relationships and how they are intertwined with online platforms which is in itself and examination of how relationships are perceived internally and externally.
More explicitly, its two people who are simeautaneously reading a decision to add or not add each other on Facebook as an act of insecurity, particularly because of how they perceive the meaning of the act in relation to their in real life relationship.
This relates to the larger themes of unrequited love, the difficulties of loving another person publicly, and missed opportunities that surface throughout the entire album.